Ministry of Education Singapore (Singapore Ministry of Education / MoE) will include rural tourism in Yogyakarta and Borobudur, Central Java, in the program students visit the school holidays. Students visit Singapore in the activities of the Regional Study Program held MoE had only carried out in Thailand and Malaysia.

"We hope this year will include the program MoE Singapore students visit to the village tourism in Yogyakarta and Borobudur in Central Java," said Bakri, Director of Community Empowerment, Directorate General of Tourism Destination Development (DG PDP) at Gedung Sapta Kemenbudpar Enchantment on Monday (25 / 4 / 2011).

In a press release that Kemenbudpar, Bakri said, as an initial step for the program realized, the Embassy in Singapore will hold a meeting with the MoE to facilitate organizing familiarization trips (Famtrip) to rural tourism in Yogyakarta and Borobudur, Magelang, Central Java. Famtrip This will be followed by 20 representatives of MoE, teachers, and corporate travel agency (travel agency) that handles vacation abroad (outbound) during the school holidays around June 2011.

In famtrip activities, the participants will visit the rural tourism in Yogyakarta and Borobudur and a visit to Taruna Nusantara Magelang School. In addition they have a meeting with the Head of School of Yogyakarta and the meeting between the travel agency business in Singapore and Indonesia, as an effort to push forward the cooperation in the marketing package holiday tours of school children.

Bakri, who recently held a working visit to the Singapore Embassy in presenting the appeal of rural community life in rural tourism in Bogor, Bandung, Yogyakarta and Borobudur. From the presentation, the Singapore Embassy in Yogyakarta and Borobudur finally chose to famtrip activities as an effort to succeed in the program students visit Singapore to tour villages in Indonesia.